Re: odd PS/2 keyboard fail

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

Update on that PS/2 keyboard fail....

Brian Buhrow's guess appears right, at least in an operational sense.
I told the BIOS to disable USB completely and now the PS/2 keyboard
works once the kernel's booted.  (I haven't tried doing anything with
mice.  All my tests were done with no mouse connected; the 4.0.1
kernels had the "pms* at pckbc?" line in the kernel, while the 1.4T
kernels did not - this might be significant for all I know.  Until I
started looking at the PRs mentioned in this thread I had no idea the
pms driver might be relevant.)

Since dmesg output is relatively lengthy and I have five of them, I'm
putting them up for FTP instead.  The files are in
ftp.rodents-montreal.org:/mouse/misc/ps2-kbd-fail/, with names which
very briefly describe the situation in which each one was captured;
I've added a few lines to the top of each one describing its scenario
in more detail.

I can build kernels and test-boot them for various scenarios, if people
think it might help.

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